Senior Java Developer

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Java Developer

Corporate Title: Up to Vice President 

Location:  Bromley

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Role Description:

This is a great opportunity to join a Scrum team in Bromley consisting of 8 team members, working on the award-winning Global Liquidity Platform (GLP) application.  The team is one of several teams working on the application, the others being in Bromley (London) and in India.

The team is friendly and very collaborative, and this is achieved using a variety of collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams.

As the team operate in an agile manner there is also regular interaction with other technical teams, product management and end users.

Training and development are a core part of the team ethos and is available through a variety of different means – we have a great online learning portal as well as providing more formal external training for niche requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Participate in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Automate manual release activities.
• Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.
• Be a strong technologist who is inquisitive and has a desire to learn.

What we’re looking for:

• Good Java development experience.
• Good knowledge of:
• Core Java, JEE.
• Spring Framework – particularly SpringMVC, SpringBoot, SpringBatch.
• REST.
• Unix scripting (BASH).
• Junit.
• Mocking (JMock/Mokito).
• Hibernate.
• Experience of Oracle DB – PLSQL scripting.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools – ex. Jenkins, XLR, Ansible.
• Experience with Agile / SCRUM Programming project methodologies.
• Experience using software configuration management systems (Git/BitBucket).
• Experience working with colleagues in other (global) locations.
• Ability to seek out information with little direction.

Skills that will help:

• JMS
• Websphere MQ.
• Acceptance Test Driven Development (JBehave, Cucumber).
• AngularJS.
• Splunk.
• Experience with secure coding practises (SAST/DAST).
• Domain Driven Design.
• Experience in the Banking domain, particularly Treasury and Payments.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

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• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum 
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.
• Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, and virtual GP services
• Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men’s health, women’s health, fertility, menopause and pregnancy & parenthood
• Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religious or similar philosophical belief, political opinion, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.”

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.